{"id":4794,"date":"2016-03-13T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2016-03-12T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:01:32","slug":"long-story-life-willie-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Long Story &#8211; My Life&#8221; by Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-YbdqwLyo5Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always pleasant to read a genuine, down-to-earth, creative person&#8217;s life story. In this case, it&#8217;s Willie Nelson, the famous country, blue, jazz, (or other labels) singer and composer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Willie Nelson is one creative soul. How does he do it? At his age of 82, he has cranked up more than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willie_Nelson_albums_discography\">68 albums<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;To all the girls he loved before.&#8221; Willie did have lots of women in his life. There seemed to be a pattern for the famous singer.<br \/>\n&#8211; He used his creativity in tackling the IRS tax problem by facing the IRS head-on without declaring bankruptcy against his friends&#8217; best advises. He sold albums to pay off his debts.<br \/>\n&#8211; Willie Nelson shows that you don&#8217;t have be branded as a country music singer or a pop star as long as you master something (music) that you&#8217;re passionate about and keep doing it, evolving it with creativity. A great lesson for all.<br \/>\n&#8211; His love for pot, marijuana, as the best &#8220;medicine&#8221; to take edges off with little downside under stress as cigarettes killed both of his parents and alcohol has too much side effect for. He even campaign for its legalization.<br \/>\n&#8211; Singing covers for some of the old songs went against the pundits&#8217; advises and proved them wrong.<br \/>\n&#8211; Before his musical success, he had to sell encyclopedias which he didn&#8217;t feel good about despite his success as a salesman. He tried selling vacuum cleaners instead to ease his conscience.<br \/>\n&#8211; Willie moved around to try different markets like Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, Oregon and Los Angeles. He&#8217;s very gutsy and willing to try different things &#8211; this is the key to success. Keep moving and keep reinventing.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite his success, Willie never forget his root; he had a home in Abbot, Texas, where he was born and raised.<br \/>\n&#8211; I got to familiarize some of his songs &#8211; some are popular and some are not.<br \/>\n&#8211; He mentioned a lot about his friends like Waylon Jenning, Jimmy Carter, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and a few others.<br \/>\n&#8211; Like a good country music. Willie Nelson tells a good, long story of his life in this book. It&#8217;s a good read for those who admire his work, music and his good character.<\/p>\n<p><iframe<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always pleasant to read a genuine, down-to-earth, creative person&#8217;s life story. In this case, it&#8217;s Willie Nelson, the famous country, blue, jazz, (or other labels) singer and composer. &#8211; Willie Nelson is one creative soul. How does he do it? At his age of 82, he has cranked up more than 68 albums. &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Long Story &#8211; My Life&#8221; by Willie Nelson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}